No Ban, No Wall, Climate Justice for All

350.org’s first campaign was the build up to an International Day of Climate Action in 2009, when people in 182 countries around the world organized over 5,200 events to call for an international climate treaty that set us back on the course to the safe upper limit of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: 350 parts per million. We’d picked that 350 goal because it was, first, what the science said was necessary, and second, because it was a number, Arabic numerals being recognized in nearly every language on Earth. We wanted to make sure that no matter where you lived — Mongolia, France, Sudan — you could see a 350, understand the target, and feel part of a unified movement. 350.org supporters in Iran Here in the United States, that unity is now under attack. Throughout his Presidential campaign, Donald Trump used hate and fearmongering to stoke division and prejudice. He call...